Making Sense of Open Access

Rowena Rouse

Scholarly Communications Manager

@radarqueen rrouse@brookes.ac.uk

Space?

Setting the Scene

Oxford Brookes University

February 2014 –

Lots of change happening:

• Space

• People

• Systems and Processes

• Open Access Landscape

Let’s talk about Open Access

• Post Ref Roadshows – Autumn 2014

15 Roadshows

OK – but what do *I* have to do?

ANSWER – basically just one thing:

When your paper or conference proceeding

output is accepted, post the postprint on the

CRIS

In a minute, I’ll show you how to do this, but first...

For researchers

Where are we now?

August 2015

• Scholarly Communications team in place

• Academics uploading to the CRIS

• Senior Management changes

• Systems

• Hefce policy Adjustments

Making Sense – a researcher centred

approach to funder mandates

www.brookes.ac.uk/library

Partners

Oxford Brookes UniversityStuart Hunt – Project Director

Rowena Rouse – Project Manager

Nottingham Trent University

University of Portsmouth

CIAO is a benchmarking tool for assessing institutional readiness for Open Access (OA) compliance. The tool is based on the CARDIO (Collaborative Assessment of Research Data Infrastructure and Objectives- http://cardio.dcc.ac.uk).

The project so far? - Baselining

CIAO

The project so far? - Baselining

The big question

How can we get the researcher to engage with all of this?

‘Most academics are failing to adopt the principle of open access, according to Stephen Curry, a structural biologist at Imperial

College London and campaigner for open access. He says the RCUK

policy may not be forcing enough academics to change their behaviour to publish more work—but the inclusion of open-access

requirements in the next Research Excellence Framework certainly will. “Every single university in the country is going to make sure their

submissions are REF-compliant,” he says. “The REF grabs everybody by the balls.”’ Research Fortnight, 11 June 2014

http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_news&template=rr_2col&view=article&articleId=1344415

http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_news&template=rr_2col&view=article&articleId=1344415

Cartoons by Bob Pomfret, copyright Oxford Brookes University. This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence: Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales

Methodology

• Not process-driven

• Researcher context(s)Constellation

• Sensemaking•Ethnography•Phenomenology•Experience•“Getting people right”

Madsbjerg, C, Rasmussen M B (2014) The moment of clarity. Harvard

Business Press

Interviews

Nottingham Trent University50 interviews , recorded and transcribed, working on coding

University of Portsmouthmore interviews

Profile of the researchers interviewed

20 April 2023 16

20 April 2023 17

What Next?

Oxford Brookes Ethnographical Interview

Who?

How?Grand Tour

Tell me about your research How do researchers communicate their research? What triggers them to publish? How do they choose where to publish

Mini Tour What are you working on the moment? How has the experience been so far?

What Next?

Longitudinal studies using cultural probes Methodology – observations, video, existing record methods

eg.lab books, discussing .. (collect the data)

Uncovering researcher behaviours and

engagement with Open Access

#oagp

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Tools and techniques for effective understanding and communication

• CIAO• MIAO• Interview Questions from NTU • Coding from NTU • Hefce poster – Portsmouth• Researcher Lifecycle – Northampton• Open Access and your published paper – Northampton• Intervention Mapping – worksheet and grid

All available from http://bit.ly/1Uk294P

More information

See how we make sense of it all, follow this

Blog: http://sensemakingopenaccess.blogspot.com/

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/library/research/resopen.html

openaccess@brookes.ac.uk